32 Quotes by Álvaro Enrigue

There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.

New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

The kitchen is the heart of the house.

Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.

I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.

I read everything from comics to magazines to fiction - I learned to read in English, years before being able to speak a word of it, by reading 'National Geographic.'

My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.

I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.